Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crays, some experts voice more concern about the future of Cray Research than they do about Cray Computer. Few doubt that the smaller spin-off firm will be able to raise all the money it needs. As John Sell, president of the Minnesota Supercomputer Center, puts it, "Seymour is magic in this business." Whether Cray Research can flourish without its founding genius remains to be seen. Analysts say that within three to five years it should be clear whether the company has wisely cut its losses or created a killer competitor by trading away its most valuable asset...
Travel and travel writing are enjoying a sort of brilliant late afternoon, what photographers call the magic hour before sunset. But the romantic sense of remoteness shrivels. Even the trash announces that the planet is all interconnection, interpenetration, black spillage, a maze of mutual implication, trajectories like the wrapped yarn of a baseball...
Ford is a man who holds few illusions about star quality. Movie magic may be an aging prostitute under a harsh streetlight for a kid whose grandfather played vaudeville in blackface and whose father produced innovative TV commercials in Chicago. "One day I met the actor who played Sky King, the aerial ace," recalls the actor. "He turned out to be short, heavyset and unconventional looking. It intrigued me, how different show business was from what people thought. And maybe that disposition gave me a reality register that has been a fixture in my life...
...mainline leaning for liberal politics and low-cal theology drew on a sort of rationalism that, in the view of Richard Mouw of California's Fuller Theological Seminary, is no longer fashionable. "We are experiencing a reaction against modernity," says Mouw. "We are getting magic and the occult and the New Age. There's a return to a premodern world view." Mouw, an Evangelical, asserts that the churches were seriously mistaken in seeking to duck the age-old questions: "Who am I as a human being before God? How can I face my own death? How can I be forgiven...
Northeastern's heavyweight boat, the top seed, finished a disappointing fifth yesterday. But what N.U. lacked in crew prowess, it made up for in musical magic. Let me introduce the Northeastern pep band, which set up shop on the sandy shores of Lake Quinsigamond yesterday...